Vinnie Burrows

Vinnie Burrows is an award-winning Broadway actress.

She has been active at the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the issues of the status of women and Southern Africa. ^[1]

In 1959, a Vinnie Burrows, possibly identical, commissioned the work of black composer Ulysses Simpson Kay. [1]

Burrows won the Paul Robeson Award in 1986.

She was to appear in a show titled "Sister! Sister!" at the University of Delaware in Newark in November 1991. [2]

She was to be a panelist in the 2000-2001 African Diaspora lecture series at the Center for Ideas and Society in Riverside, California. [3]

She was to appear in a reprise of the show titled "Sister! Sister!" at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center in March 2001. [4]

The Black Theater Guild at Massachusetts Institute of Technology expected to host Burrows for lunch in February 2003. [5]

She played the role of Barbara Scarlatti in "Bel Canto" in September 2003 on stage in Atlanta, Georgia. [6]

She was due to appear in a show titled "Black on the Great White Way: The Story of Rose McClendon" at the University of Iowa in March 2007. [7]

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